Have you ever gazed at the beauty of a full moon or stood in awe of the multitude of the stars in the sky on a clear dark night and considered the greatness of our God who created them?   When I consider THY heavens - the work of THY fingers - the moon and the stars which GOD has made ("ordained" means to erect, set up or make.)  The vastness of God's heavens are the work of His fingers.  God is spirit.  He does not have fingers as we do.  This is a figure of speech used to emphasize that God is the one who formed, made, and created the heavens.

Psalm 147:4
   He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
   Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

   The number of stars visible to the naked eye from earth has been estimated to total 8000. The individual stars visible in the sky are simply those that lie closest to our solar system in the Milky Way galaxy.  Astronomers have calculated that the stars in the Milky Way galaxy to which the sun belongs, number in the hundreds of billions.  The Milky Way, in turn, is only one of several hundred million such galaxies within the viewing range of the larger modern telescopes.  No man knows exactly how many stars there are, but God not only knows how many there are, He knows the name of each one!  How great is our God!

Job 22:12
   Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

   The star nearest to our solar system is the triple star Proxima Centauri, which is about 40 trillion km from earth.  In terms of the speed of light, the common standard used by astronomers for expressing distance, this triple-star system is about 4.29 light-years distant; light traveling at about 186,000 miles per second takes more than four years and three months to travel from this star to earth.  The greatness of God is compared to the height of the stars!

   So, in Psalm 8,When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained . . .
Psalm 8:4
   What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

   That the God who created the vastness of the heavens should have thoughts about and visit man is almost unbelievable.

Psalm 40:5
   Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Psalm 139:17
   How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

   God thinks about us so much that it would be impossible to count the number of thoughts He has toward us!  What a wonderful thing to consider.  What is man that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

   The "son of man" not only refers to Adam and mankind but is prophesy foretelling God's thoughts toward Jesus Christ who was to come to redeem mankind and re-establish man's standing before God.

Psalm 8:5-6
   For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels [God], and crowned him with glory and honour.
   Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet;

   The Hebrew word translated "the angels" in this verse is the word Elohym.  Elohym is translated as "God" 2,592 times.  This verse is the only place where it was translated "the angels."  It should be translated "God."  Man was never meant to be lower than the angels.  Man was meant to be just a little lower than God.  Man was to rule over all of God's creation.  What wonderful words to consider!

   God has made man just a little lower than Himself.  He made Adam to have dominion over all of His creation and He put all things under man's feet.  Adam sinned and lost that dominion, but it was regained by the Lord Jesus Christ, the son of man, who walked perfectly before God.  As in the beginning, man is once again in a position that is just a little lower than God Himself thanks to the accomplished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Jesus Christ was our substitute and we have an identification with him.  By God's power we are seated in Christ at the right hand of God far above the angels and every other power.

Ephesians 1:19-23
   And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
   Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
   Far above all the principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
   And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
   Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

   As believers we are part of the body of Christ.  Christ is the head, we are his body, and all principality, power, might, and dominion is put under his feet - which means all is also under our feet as we are his body.  God's thoughts toward us and His power toward us in placing us just a little lower than Himself are really something to consider.  When Jesus Christ was raised from the dead we were raised with him.  When he was seated at God's right hand, we were seated with him.   We are made just a little lower than God Himself and we have dominion over all God's creation.

Psalm 8:3-9
   When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
   What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
   For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels [God], and hast crowned him with glory and honour,
   Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
   All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
   The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
   O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!